18 Orchard Close, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1DB

18 Orchard Close is a five-bedroom detached house in Copford, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 1DB). It has a recorded floor area of 166 m² (around 1787 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (February 2020) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump.

One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 166 m² it's 27.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (130 m² median across 12 EPCs). Across 2020–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 20.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£383/sq ft) was about 57.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold October 2022 for £685,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.